L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

Seabees

ACROSS

1 Scrabble accessories 6 Long-grained rice 13 Cajun crustacean 20 Target reader of a series of guides, facetiously 21 Odysseus, e.g. 22 Struck a chord

23 Kids’ eager query 24 Subject of an 1857 Elizabeth Gaskell biography

26 Seal predator

27 Really enjoy, with “in” 28 ‘80s police show partner 29 Better, to a rapper 31 Proprietors’ places 35 Generous limit?

36 “I’m __”: “Dragnet” line 40 Organization that really counts

43 Meet with privately 45 Tearjerker need 46 Enriched

48 Nautical time units 49 Actor Morales 50 Tourism prefix 52 Mojito flavoring

53 Like some portrait photos 55 Unyielding

56 Having four sharps 57 Tribute group 59 Phoenix-to-Albuquerque dir.

60 Gill openings

62 Like the Valkyries

64 “No Limit Top __”: 1999 rap album

65 Stress, they say 66 Shows obvious anger 68 Teddies, e.g. 70 Seehorn of “Better Call Saul”

72 Diamond stats

73 R&B singer __ Marie 74 __ Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster

77 Poetic time 78 Microbrewery choice 80 Play date

82 RSA ruling party 83 “Yeah, so?” 85 Logician’s “E”

86 Either of baseball’s Griffeys

87 Food stamp? walk

89 “The Godfather” catchphrase

92 Lost intentionally 94 Rockefeller, e.g. 96 Bletchley Park analysts 98 Trueheart of comics 99 Bass ending

100 Business bigwig

101 Worshiping figure

102 One of a deck’s pair 104 “Star Trek” villain

106 Scottish resort town

known for its whisky 109 Ghee, e.g. 116 Low area 117 Settled accounts, so to speak

118 Big wardrobe 119 Almost off

120 Salad choice 121 Low-quality material, idiomatically 122 Castaway’s place

DOWN

1 Bad guy in the song “Copacabana” 2 Month before Nisan 3 Team that hasn’t won a Super Bowl in its 50-year existence 4 Brando’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” role 5 Chateau __ Michelle winery

6 Antacid option 7 Olympians, e.g.: Abbr. 8 One-named Colombian singer

9 Scuff, e.g. 10 Often-injured knee part, briefly 11 Confucian path

12 IOC part: Abbr.

13 It’s seen on carousels 14 Marbled cut

15 “Give it __” 16 One of many Seuss village residents

17 Put on

18 Product, say: Abbr. 19 Capital of Denmark? 25 Nice cup?

27 Consult with the doctor 30 Him, to Henri

32 Figure in red 33 Indigenous 34 Defiant challenge 36 Fashion model Wek 37 Amateur sport since 1893 38 Connected, in a way 39 Annoy

40 Mating game

41 Flip chart holder 42 Roswell sighting 44 Sequence sung like “Twinkle twinkle” 47 Less cool

51 Perp processing area 54 Sylvie’s seraph

56 “It __”: formal selfidentification 57 Reached an apex

58 Cold War capital 61 Singing syllable 63 “Frozen” snowman 65 Catch a bug 67 Evening on Etna 68 Small fishing boat concern 69 Taunt

70 Recover from a crash 71 Bum

73 Place to keep leaves 75 Over-__: sports wager 76 Boatloads

78 Michael of “Arrested Development” 79 Prepare for impact 81 Summer hire, perhaps 84 Claim to call 86 Erstwhile CIA rival 87 Algebra staples

90 Year abroad

91 Casual Friday casualty? 93 Bond rating

95 One whose business is mostly overhead?

97 Lion or tiger

102 Banter

103 Nutritional stds.

105 Mother of Ares

107 Ointment additive 108 Mature eft

109 Pixar Studios’ specialty,

for short

110 __ cit.: footnote abbr. 111 Bore, as a cost

112 Yank’s opponent

113 “Dude!”

114 Underground org.?

115 How-__: instruction books 116 “__ lied”